I don't care what critics and other people think.

There's too many good musicians around for the music around for the business to be sagging.

The blues appealed to me, but so did rock. The early rockabilly guitarists like Cliff Gallup and Scotty Moore were just as important to me as the blues guitarists.

A lot of people can't be on their own. They get frightened. Isolation doesn't bother me at all. It gives me a sense of security.

I'm not afraid of death. That is the greatest mystery of all. That'll be it, that one. But it is all a race against time.

Led Zeppelin didn't get that kind of Beatles screaming. We had a more sort of macho crowd. But I remember once in the early days of The Yardbirds, we were playing on an ice rink, and the stage was mobbed by screaming girls. I had my clothes torn off me. That's a really uncomfortable experience, let me tell you.

I can listen to all different sorts of music. I don't really care about The Next Big Thing.